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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake 
Santa Clara [/quote]

This is a good list. Thank you...

I had brought up NYU for ED. I also mentioned he look into UMD and AU and he guffawed like I had insulted him. I hope his college counselor gives him more hard truths in the Fall so he hears it from someone else. [/quote]
he's in for a rude awakening.  Same thing happened to my DC, magnet 4.0 uwpga, 4.92 wgpa, 1580 SAT kid.  Thought they would get into some T20. Nope.  They didn't listen to me, either.[/quote]

Where is your DC now?

Interesting that one of these kids said to parents, "it's different now." My experience has been that parents don't recognize that "it's different now" and grossly overestimate how easy it will be for their kid to get into their Ivy/T20 school. Legacy can def help, but it is not a couple pounds on the scale. Perhaps a light touch of a finger, but that's it. Of course there are legacy exceptions for prominent families, major donors, etc.

Just curious what this kid thinks "is different now."[/quote]

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